[A diversity of opinion prevails as to the exact import of this term.
The great musical critic Mattheson, in a work written on the word,
having rejected eleven meanings, decides in favour of the twelfth,
which makes the word equivalent to the modern Italian _da capo_. In
this view, the word _selah_ directs a repetition of the air or song
from the commencement, to the parts where it is placed. Herder held
that _selah_ denoted a swell, or a change in the rapidity of the
movement, or in the key. The Easterns, he says, are fond of a very
uniform, and, as it appears to Europeans, mournful music; but at
certain points, they of a sudden change the key, and pass into a
different melody. These points, he thinks, were among the Hebrews
indicated by the word _selah_. The balance of authority, however, is in
favour of the former view.--_The People's Dict. of the Bible._ Consult
also, Julius Bate's _Critica Hebræa_, and Gesenius' _Hebrew and English
Lexicon_.]
_The Long Parliament._--Where is a list of it, including its various
changes, to be seen?